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without some sacrifice of feeling, meet any of their 
own countrymen by whom the island might be 
visited; and, often rising in the morning from the 
rustic bed, without knowing whence the supplies 
of even native food for the day were to be derived, 
they have sent out a native servant-boy to seek for 
bread-fruit in the mountains, or to solicit a supply 
from the trees of some friendly chief in the 
neighbourhood, while they have repaired to the 
school, and pursued their daily instruction, cheered 
and encouraged only by the progress of their 
scholars. 
Such are the men who have long laboured in 
these islands ; and though others may have been 
associated with them, who have turned back, or 
proved themselves unequal to the station, where 
many, who stand firm at their post at home, would 
perhaps have fainted, or have fallen under the dis¬ 
couragements inseparable from it—they have been 
faithful. They seek not the praise that cometh 
from man, but the testimony of their consciences, 
and the approval of Heaven ; and, irrespective of 
the honour God has put upon them, they are en¬ 
titled, from their steady and successful course, to 
be “ highly esteemed for their works’ sake.” 
